Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A.

Commissioned by Edward Ladd Betts (1815–1872), Preston Hall, Kent, by 1857;

His sale, London, Christie's, 30 May 1868, lot 68, for 4,000 guineas;

Where acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, on behalf of Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow, M.P. (1806–1878), Marton Hall, near Middlesbrough;

Thence by descent to his nephew, Carl Ferdinand Henry Bolckow (1835–1915), Marton Hall;

His sale ('The Highly Important Collection of Modern Pictures from Marton Hall, Middlesborough, formed by H.W.F. Bolckow, Esq., M.P., Deceased'), London, Christie's, 5 May 1888, lot 48, for 4,950 guineas;

Where acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

From whom acquired by Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, later 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927), Kenwood House, London and St James's Gate, Dublin, on 22 May 1888;

Thence by descent;

Until sold ('The Property of the late Lord Moyne and others, Sold by Order of the Executors'), London, Christie's, 25 March 1994, lot 85;

Where acquired by a private collector;

Thence by descent.

London, Royal Academy, The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 4 May – 25 July 1857, no. 77;

Manchester, Royal Botanical Gardens, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 3 May – 10 November 1887, no. 542;

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and London, Tate Gallery, Sir Edwin Landseer, 24 October 1981 – 3 January 1982; and 10 February – 12 April 1982, no. 125;

Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, on long-term loan, 1983–93;

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands, 14 April – 10 July 2005.

The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, exh. cat., London 1857, p. 7, no. 77;

The Times, no. 22670, 2 May 1857, p. 9;

Morning Post, 2 May 1857, p. 6;

The Athenaeum, no. 1541, 9 May 1857, p. 601;

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, vol. III, 30 May 1857, p. 498;

The Art Journal, vol. III, 1857, p. 166, no. 77;

'Chronicle', in The Annual Register, or a view of the history and politics of the year 1857, London 1858, p. 80;

F.G. Stephens, 'The Private Collections of England. No. VII – Middlesborough-on-Tees', in The Athenaeum, no. 2404, 22 November 1873, pp. 664–65;

F.G. Stephens, Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer, London 1874, p. 126 (1880 ed., p. 97);

A. Graves, Catalogue of the works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., London 1876, p. 32, no. 401;

Royal Jubilee Exhibition, exh. cat., Manchester 1887, p. 295, no. 542;

W. Powell Frith, My autobiography and reminiscences, vol. III, London 1888, p. 247;

The Times, no. 32375, 2 May 1888, p. 13;

The Times, no. 32379, 7 May 1888, p. 9;

G. Redford, Art Sales. A history of sales of pictures and other works of art, London 1888, vol. I, pp. 452–53;

The Art Journal, 1888, p. 342;

W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's: A record of art sales from 1766 to 1896, London 1897, vol. II, p. 132;

J.A. Manson, Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., London 1902, p. 151;

E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (eds), The works of John Ruskin, vol. XIV, London 1904, p. 115, under no. 597;

G. Reitlinger, The economics of taste: the rise and fall of picture prices 1760–1960, London 1961, vol. I, pp. 95 and 359;

L. Linder (ed.), The Journal of Beatrix Potter 1881–1897, London 1966, pp. 199–200 (1989 ed., pp. 207–208);

C. Lennie, Landseer: The Victorian Paragon, London 1976, pp. 180 and 243;

R. Ormond et al., Sir Edwin Landseer, exh. cat., Philadelphia and London 1981, pp. 176–77, no. 125, reproduced;

J. Vickers et al., Pre-Raphaelites: Painters and Patrons in the North East, exh. cat., Newcastle upon Tyne 1989, p. 126;

R. Ormond, The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands, exh. cat., Edinburgh 2005, pp. 115, 118 and 131, reproduced in colour pl. 133.

Engraved

Thomas Landseer (1798–1880), 1859;

George Zobel (1810–1881), 1868;

John Cother Webb (1855–1927), 1892.